Customer Reviews

Rodale's Garden Answers: Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs : At-A-Glance Solutions for Every Gardening Problem (G.K. Hall Large Print Reference Collection)

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Spend less time reading and more time gardening with this quick-reference guide. The book is broken into five sections: Getting Started, Growing Vegetables, Growing Fruits, Growing Herbs, and Controlling Pest and Diseases. Each section is loaded with tips. In the Getting started section, you will learn about preparing a site, buying the right plants, and how to making Compost Tea. The Vegetable section, not only gives you a detailed write-up on over 30 different vegetables, but tells how to get 100 pounds of tomatoes from one plant. For the do-it-yourself group, there are instructions on how to build a homemade tomato cage.

The book devotes 100 pages to growing fruits. Learn how to make an aphid trap out of a milk jug or how to propagate berry plants and fruit trees. There are detailed care and maintenance write-ups on 12 of the most common fruits & berries.

The Herb section talks about controlling invasive herbs, companion planting, and how to perform a technique called layering.

The Controlling Pest and Diseases section points out beneficial insects and plants. The book also explains organic tricks for solving insect, plant deficiency, and disease problems. I love the way the book uses home products to solve common gardening problems in an easy to read format. This is my favorite gardening book.

I really loved this book because it focused on organic methods first. Also, it goes though plant by plant and lists growth conditions, problems and many options for cures. It also goes through soil and garden development.

There is a ton of useful, organic gardening information in this book. I especially like the lay out. Not my only gardening book but one I go to often.

I love this book, it has become my gardening bible! If I have a question, it has the answer. It has made gardening organically much easier.
Last year was my first year to try to garden organically, and it didn't work out too well. But this year I actually know what I'm doing! I would definatly recommend it!

This book came in good shape and is so full of information that we pore over it and expect to use it often. We love it!

Was a gift. This is timeless book for the basic and "how to's" in gardening.
Excellent guide for the back yard beginner or professional gardener.
Tks,
Galen Davis
Phoenix, AZ

This is a great book. Too bad its out of print but there are used ones for cheap. I use a little miracle grow and try to never use pesticide. This book is more about growing plants than it is about being organic.
Vegetables and some trees but no flowers are in this book.

This book is GREAT for any type of gardner, from begginner to "farmer"

We use it every year and it has really helped our garden just grow bigger and bigger each time.